Hellmun wrote:One other note is the ABS cars has EBD (Electronic Brake-Force Distribution) so it's already balancing the front and rear for you automatically. So your only going to make things much worse with a prop valve.
200C ain't that hot either, the stock pads should do that easily so how are you measuring? Also bad rear pads might be so low friction they put you outside the range of adjustment for the EBD. Until I put matching race pads front/rear my fronts got much hotter.
Stock Mazda pads all round. Temps measured using an eBay infra-red thingo. Not the most exact thing in he world but near enough. They didn't overheat. They just wore out. And never having dríven a car so hard before, and never having worn pads out, I didn't recognise the symptoms until the left front was metal to metal.
I hear what you're saying about a prop valve and won't go there. I also noticed that drivers around me (more often in front of me) are blipping the throttle and changing down while braking whereas I get the braking done then change down one or more gears as needed. Doing what the others do will make the rears do a bit more work but I'm told I need to watch out for overcoming the ABS and EBD and locking up the rears when I do this.
On goes the learning curve. And on go slotted rotors and better pads.
